Drama

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First musical in 1866, accidental creation. story, song and dance, not operetta performers. sung by average voices

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Black Crook

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Musical with songs and dance carefully integrated into well-made story. origins in 1925. radio hits, hit movie versions.

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Book Musical

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Musical created by Rodgers and Hammerstein 1943, famous for dream ballet. Choreography advanced plot. What kind of musical & what's its name?

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Oklahoma, Book Musical

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Musical type concentrates on a specific group of characters and deprioritize plot.

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Concept Musical

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Concept musical composed by Galf MacDermot. 1967, hippies, drugs, anti-Vietnam war.

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Hair

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Concept musical with choreographer Micheal Bennet. 1975. Real life stories of difficulties faced by broadway dancers.

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A Chorus Line

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"Sung through musical" half-sung/half-spoken, little to no dialogue.

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Pop Opera

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1986 Pop Opera musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Longest running in U.S history.

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Phantom of the Opera

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Based on collection of songs written by well-known composer or associated with a singer or musical group.

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Jukebox Musical

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Golden Age choreographer. Famous for Cabaret, Chicago and All That Jazz. Dance-as-sex, sex-as-dance

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Bob Fosse

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Choreographer known for quick jerky moves contrasted by slow sinuous moves. Striptease, bowler, draping of limbs.

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Bob Fosse

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Composer and lyricist born in 1930. Known for Company, Into the Woods. Ironic Bitter cynical tone.

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Steven Sondheim

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Composer and lyricist born in 1930. Known for Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George. Dark, disturbing plots. Non-melodic musicality.

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Steven Sondheim

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Song form sung early in a musical to introduce the character and set out their goals and opposition.

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The "I" Song

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Song form that highlights dance with an upbeat number builds to a big finish and has a memorable melody.

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Rhythm Song

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Song form created for laughs.

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Comic Song

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Song form which is the popular/money maker of the show. Love song or lament for lost love, slow song.

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The Ballad

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Founders of the street performance troupe that eventually gave way to Cirque Du Solei.

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Guy Laliberte & Gilles St. Croix

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Creator/Artistic Director of Villa Villa and Feurza Bruta(2002). Founded Dela Guarda in 1943.

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Piqui James

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This term for a type of theatre translates as "Brute Force"

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Feurza Bruta

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Creator/Artistic Director known for Aggressive dance, flying-aerial acrobatics, water, audience interaction/participation and having a small space with a large audience.

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Piqui James

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Creator of a form of theatre. Arrested tortured and exiled in 1971, uses theatre to speak up for people without a voice.

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Augusto Boal

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Creator of pedagogical principles, see situation, analyze root causes, explore group solutions, act to change situation.

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Paulo Freire

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Practicipatory type of theatre used to challenge oppression having spectactors improvise solutions.

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Forum Theatre

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Forum Theatre process:

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-Anti model, actors preform scenario

-Acotrs reply same situation same way

-Audience members encouraged to yell stop

-Audience member replace actors onstage

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Character that warms up the audience, introduces the concepts and inspires audience to act out against oppression.

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Joker

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Opportunity to both act and observe, engage in self-empowering dialogue.

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Spectactor

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Performance to determine the need for, create and enact laws.

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Legislative theatre

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This man used legislative theatre to pass 13 laws.

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Augusto Boal

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Physicalized representation of themes, concepts and abstract thoughts expressed through the physical body.

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Image Theatre

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Theatre form using body instead of voice to speak out against oppression

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Image Theatre

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Public place, bystanders unaware of a performance.

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Invisible Theatre

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Siminovitch nominee known for governor general award winning "The December Man" as well as her play "Pig Girl"

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Colleen Murphy

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said "often said writers can talk to the dead but a writer can also use imagination to let dead talk."

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Colleen Murphy

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Controversial play on the Pikton Murders often criticised for not involving aboriginal performers.

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Pig Girl

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Adoption of specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group.

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Cultural Appropriation

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Casting a role without actors ethnicity

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Colour-blind casting

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use of actors of any race, sex, ethnicity or degree of disabilities in roles.

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Non-Traditional Casting

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Play by Neil Labute that opened in 2002 NYC about a man who worked at WTC but was with a mistress during 9/11.

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The Mercy Seat

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for The Glass Menagerie, Street Car Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer

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Tennessee Williams

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Rigidly traditional form of Japanese drama combining music, dance and lyrics

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Noh

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In Noh theatre, "the doer" main character, often masked.

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Shite

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In Noh theatre, the supporting character, challenges shite.

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Waki

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comic character, or a play performed in between Noh plays for comic relief.

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Kyogen

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In Noh theatre, the bridge which performers make their entrance from dressing area to stage

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Hashigakari

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Traditional form of Japanese theatre with song and dance, highly stylized manor.

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Kabuki

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In Kabuki theatre, walkway through audience to the stage

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Hanamichi

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In Kabuki theatre, high points captured in physical poses accentuated by wooden clappers.

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Mie

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Japanese puppet theatre

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Bunraku

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In Bunraku, person at the side of the stage who narrates all the action.

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Chanter

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In this form of theatre, performers spend years training just to operate one part of the puppet. There are 3 handlers in total for the 3-4 foot tall puppets

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Bunraku

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17th century form of theatre in India that enacts tales from Indian epics as well as popular Hindu lore.

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Kathakali

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in Kathakali theatre, emotion states communicated through prescribed facial expressions

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Bhavas

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In this theatre, actors train for exact positioning of eyes, eyebrows, mouth and neck. (even place seeds in eyes to redden them)

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Kathakali

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Playwright Known for This is War, East of Berlin, The Russian Play

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Hannah Moscovitch

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Trillium Book Award winning play surrounding Canadian soldiers and Afghanistan war by Hannah Moscovitch

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This is War

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Largest and longest running queer theatre in world dedicated to promotion of Queer Canadian culture

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Buddies in Bad Times

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Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times

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Evalyn Perry

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Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre

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Kelly Thorton

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Operate with firm belief in women's equality and use theatre to challenge stereotypes and assumptions about gender, races and sexuality.

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Nightwood theatre

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Dedicated to exploration, development and production of the Black Voice

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Obsidian Theatre

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Artistic director of Obsidian theatre

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Philip Aikin

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Artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts

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Ryan Cunningham

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Dedicated to expression of aboriginal experience in Canada. encourage use of theatre as form of communication in native culture

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Native Earth Performing Arts

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Artistic Director of Fugen Theatre

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David Yee

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Dedicated to development of professional Asian Canadian theatre artists

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Fugen Theatre

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Truth is in the subconscious mind, sought to reveal a higher reality

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Surrealism

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audiences sees the story through the mind of one character, sees the characters inner reality

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Expressionism

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complex analysis hoping to shape dialogue about a work of art. Large space allotted

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Critic

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guides public opinion and shapes market for a production. quick turnaround.

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reviewer

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4 roles of the critic

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-interpretor

-artistic muse

-visionary

-artist as critic

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information about past events given by the playwright through character conversation. usually at beginning

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Exposition

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sets action into motion. should act as a trigger for climatic outcome

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Inciting incident

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casual or linear plot. a to b to c cause and effect.

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Climatic structure

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made up of a series of scenes linked together by character, theme, place but held apart by individual plot, purpose subtext

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episodic structure

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Characteristic include anti-art, everything is insignificant. there is not truth, meaningless of civilization.

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Dadaism

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Movement is seen, mechanical and robotic. focussed on technology

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Futurism

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focused on the psychological and social problems of ordinary life. the more censored version of real life

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Realism

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theatre should not lie. present ordinary life as accurately as possible, not censored

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Naturalism

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in greek theatre, an altar for diongsus in the middle of the orchestra

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Thymele

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architectural wall which most likely contained doors and served as a backdrop or setting. provided exits and entrances

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Skene

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platform on wheels pushed onto the stage usually with corpses of people who died offstage

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Ekkyklema

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Greek theatre that creates intimacy between performers and audience. audience surrounds the stage on three sides

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Thrust

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audience faces the stage straight on.

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proscenium

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Audience surrounds stage on all sides

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Arena

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mans futile search for meaning, human situation is devoid of purpose

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Absurdism

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Known for Ex Machina theatre company. highly developed formal side where decorative elements become infused with meaning and emotion

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Robert Lepage

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Texan born, precise choreographed movement, known for his use of lighting

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Robert Wilson

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Canadian director known for site specific theatre and most importantly "No Exit" also known for electric company

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Kim Collier

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Fredricton Newbrunswick, most produced Canadian playwright. summer stock theatre fare.

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Norm Foster

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Quebecois playwright. Fairy tales in reality

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Carol Frechette

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Known for designing, music COSTUMES. Also Lion King

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Julie Taymor

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Afrika solo. re-examines ubringing in Canada combined with her personal discoveries in Africa.

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Djanet Sears

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Exploring Latin stereotypes in Canada, cultural dualism

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Guillermo Verdecchia

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Queer American performing artist, Glory Box. Combat homophobia in the US

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Tim Miller